(n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.
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Salute
Definition:
(v. t.) To address, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail.
(v. t.) Hence, to give a sign of good will; to compliment by an act or ceremony, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
(v. t.) To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by dipping colors, by cheers, etc.
(v. t.) To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
(v.) The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting.
(v.) A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc.
(v.) A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colors or the topsails, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her arm is outstretched in a strong, certain Nazi salute.
(2) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(3) The August 2010 incident occurred two months after the Swiss federal council of seven ministers, including the president, decided not to ban the Nazi salute and swastika symbol in Switzerland .
(4) The French NBA star was pictured giving the “quenelle”, which has been described as a “reverse Nazi salute”, with its originator, the French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala.
(5) The simplest answer is that she had no choice but to give the Nazi salute that day.
(6) US president Barack Obama saluted the late king’s commitment to close US – Saudi ties and offered condolences.
(7) They marched to the police roadblock, and performed a 21-gun salute for a fallen veteran and a prayer ceremony on the bridge.
(8) She unabashedly referenced the Black Panthers, and made Black Power salutes, all while asserting her own cultural and ethnic identity.
(9) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
(10) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(11) But proceedings quickly descended into farce, with the defendants' legal team chanting "the people demand the return of the president" and flashing a four-fingered "Rabaa" salute that has become a calling-card for Morsi supporters.
(12) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
(13) For anyone visiting the Emerald Isle it will be hard to miss the centenary salutes throughout the year.
(14) They flew back late Tuesday night ahead of a formal welcome on Wednesday morning with a 19-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House, the grandest reception for any world leader in Washington this year.
(15) One such salute, repeated on a British football pitch by a friend of Dieudonné, the West Bromwich Albion striker Nicolas Anelka , has had the footballer charged by the Football Association.
(16) With Connor Wickham’s late volleyed goal offering Sunderland no consolation, Pardew assumed centre stage at the final whistle, striding on to the pitch and saluting Palace’s rightly ecstatic travelling support.
(17) "In 1938 the Aston Villa side, touring Germany, famously declined to give a Nazi salute (unlike the England side the day before!
(18) Fang's visit to Washington was heralded with a rare full military honours ceremony on the Pentagon's parade field, complete with a US navy band, formations of troops from all of the services and a 19-gun salute.
(19) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
(20) MIA could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars following her notorious middle-finger salute at Sunday's Super Bowl .